... silks, timber, dried fruits, and hope, and with abolitions of duty on butter, cheese, tallow, will give a remission of indirect taxation to the amount of more than two millions sterling. Then the paper duty is amputated with a bold sweep, being a saerifiee ...

... the proxy. paper stamp. from Gd to Id; to reduce the stamp of letters of attorney for receiving dividends; to legalise ninrine insurances; to grant oce..sional licenses to beer-sellers and refreshment houses. In regard to the sugar duties, he proplses to ...

... frid by means of adhesive stamps, to be provided by the Commis. sioners of Inland Revenue.' This refers to the stamp-duty on write of confirmation, ike., endorsed on other deeds, and the effect, s'iould the clause be adopted, will be to save the expense ...

... agreement stamp reduced to half-a-crown; &Whiten of etzprosy stoop on Idb ilustarrac.- polioist ; abolition of gold and silver-plate duties; tea duty reduced 24 per pound; duty on currants reduced (rum 70 to 24 per buneredweight • increased ...

... Jew. Entirely in the power of an embarrassed and pitiless landlord, his position has been rendered more miserable by the abolition of serf-1 dom • and it is but lately that, in nonsetuence of the measnree or tne lie sditary surrenki tneir 1 allotments ...

... India in default of heirs-natural. The Law of Property Amendment Bill passed through Committee. The Customs Duty (No. 2) Bill, the Excise Duties Bill, and the Exchequer Bonds (2,000,0001) Bill were read a third time and passed. In the House of Commons ...

... Exchequer, in reply to a question from Mr 'Nicoll having reference to the new Stamp Act, said that it was the practice of the Bank of England to refuse payment of a cheque the stamp of which had not been cancelled; and he expressed a hope that the other banks ...

... of the Government. And we have to thank him for originating the Act for the Abolition of the compulsory Newspaper Stamp, whereby the press is now at liberty to print stamped or unstamped news. This measure is a great boon to the public as it is, but it ...

... The only Cure. May be obtained of Nor. and SONM, ALT an I MOOI., and aM in Boxer, l• 14 , 44 &I, and Ile. Poet Fr,. for extr Stamp. Prepared oily by W. STEEL, u.b., !II Liyorol Rea N. SATURDAY, MAT 2,1874. 017 R WEEK. WE are at last to haves Royal Commission ...

... Sunday next are :—The stamp duties affecting ecclesiastical as well As civil matters ; it received the royal assent on 10th August last. The Stamp Duties Management Act, referring principally to the sale, purchase, and exchange stamps ; 10th ...

... littlo surplus wherewith to deal in the coming Budget. The re leutiens in the duty on tee, and other items, which *here made last year, and the abolition of the tinii,er duties in accordance with the terms if our csanniorclal treaty with Austria, have narrowed ...

... Assessed Taxes and Licence Duties respectively by persons who have kept articles liable to duty previous to or in either of those years and, showing the periods in the years 1869-70 and 1870-1 in which, under the same scheme, H. use-duty, Land-Tax, and , Income-Tax ...